We sold out all of our tickets faster, right? I remember hearing something about that. I think it's a long enough trip for both teams that proximity will matter less than people think. Considering Michigan fans travel extremely well, I wouldn't be surprised to see it 60/40 in favor of Michigan. Also wouldn't be surprised to see it 60/40 the other way.

As usual, the SEC team has a shorter distance to travel but it's a longer trip than usual for them.

I was afraid for a long time that Bama fans would overtake the stadium since they are closer but I could actually live with it 60-40. Just nothing more than that. I've seen bowl games in the past where it looked like it was 70-30 for our opponents to us. I don't want to see that.

I'd say anywhere between 35,000-40,000. I think Bama will have slightly more people, but for no reason other than its closer proximity to Dallas. I doubt you'd be able to really notice a difference in size for the respective fan bases.

Taking the average attendance at Michigan's last ten bowl appearances (74,735), I then made an assumption that approximately half of those were Michigan fans historically (37,367). Allowing for the relative attractiveness of this matchup, add a potential 5%. So, I would go with something in the 37,000-42,000 range.